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Throughout my year of playing I was always working on technique and skill. I always had some sort of feedback, but the most common was the augmented feedback from my coaches. I realized that all my feedback was after a skill was completed and not after every time. This was the correct way to approach the augmented feedback, so I had some coaches that knew what they were doing. The three most important ways to give augmented feedback is after the task is completed, a delay in feedback once completed, and not to give it after every trial. The other type of feedback was intrinsic which I would always give myself after. I was always looking to improve my technique when swinging, throwing, or pitching and would think it through during practice.

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The first time I threw a change-up while pitching in a game lead to a strike-out looking for the other player. I was playing at the 9-10 year old level and I threw it when the batter at two strikes on him. This lead to him looking at the pitch go right through the middle of the zone and the umpire calling strike three. It surprised everyone watching especially the better. Anticipation of a stimulus can be a beneficial thing, when correct. There are costs, however, which can lead to the incorrect preparatory processes of swinging on time. The player in this case was anticipating a pitch of the same speed, but instead it went in slower. The player had to inhibit what he had prepared to do and subsequently go through all the processes of deciding when and whether to swing.

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When I was playing at the 11-12 year old level we were in the semi-final game tied in the bottom of the last inning. The bases were loaded with no outs, and my dad put me in to pitch to try to get out of the jam. I was very nervous, but I gained my composure and got two outs. I then walked a batter and loaded the bases again, but this time I did not get the out we needed. I ended up balking by holding on to the ball when I was trying to pick the player off at first. I don't know why I was trying to get him, but I lost the game for us and the runner from third got a free path to home. That was and will be one of the most memorable stories I have playing baseball. This is the definition of choking under pressure. I had developed the skill of picking off runners that it was never a mistake I made until then. I could say I was an expert at doing so relative to my age. I have done it many times before, but I over thought it and this time I made an error and balked the runner it. I was thinking of how to perform the movement even though it should have been an unconscious movement.

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#5: I've been throwing right handed all my life.

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#5: I've been throwing right handed all my life.

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Not once have I stopped to think which side should I throw with or which side of the plate should I stay on to hit. The topic of bilateral transfer was covered in which practice with one side of the body should result in improve in the other side of the body with the same movement task. One hypothesis relates to GMP and suggests that muscle selection is is a parameter of GMP, and not an invariant factor. This is why one should see improvements in the other limb if practiced with one side but with swinging this is not the case for me. The hemispheres (left and right) in the brain of humans and the control over it gives one the ability to be better from one side of the body. The body is able to be more dominant with the more dominant side of the brain (Chow, D. 2010. Why Are Some People Ambidextrous?).

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#4: Best Ground Ball Play was in Warm-ups?

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#4: Best Ground Ball Play was in Warm-ups?

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When I was younger I played on many different types of fields. Some were great, but others were not in top conditions. On one field the infield and outfield had bumps/holes and I was fielding ground balls at shortstop, and of course one ball had to hit a bump and take the quickest bounce I've seen. I was ready to field the ball on the ground but I ended up coming up to chest height to field the ball. I realized that many tasks require speed and accuracy but there is always a trade-off. The accuracy is there with the ground balls, but once the ball took a hop the chances of me fielding the ball decreased. I had to move my glove to another point as quick as I can, so the speed was there but accuracy was diminished. I was still accurate enough to field the ball, or else something like the picture below would have occurred.

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One of my best outfield plays came at the end of the game to make the last out and win it. The ball was hit in the bullpen in foul territory and I ran there without looking down and tracking the ball in the air the whole way. During the play I was starting to lose the ball and it was becoming blurry, but I was able to make the catch and end the game. This movement can be broken down into a primary and secondary task. The primary is tracking the baseball while the secondary is running throughout. One can test to see how much of a difference the attention to the primary task there is when you run to the ball compared to not running/staying in place.

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This one I remember very clearly but too bad I didn't see the ball clearly. During warm-ups I was taking ground balls at 2nd base and then when were were going through double plays I remember getting to the bag and the 3rd baseman's throw hitting me right in the face. I lost the ball in the sun and I ended up being fine! Nothing broken! I realize that the clarity and intensity of the stimulus was not there for the duration it had to be in order for me to react and catch it. The extent to which the stimulus is present influences how long it takes to respond. Losing it in the sun decreased the clarity and intensity of the baseball, so I took one to the head.

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My story and most memorable times throughout growing up came from playing baseball. I started tee ball when I was 4 and played until the end of my senior year of high school. I also played the summer after freshman year in college. I can say playing baseball was what I loved to do and I still continue to hit the cages and throw every once in a while. The skills I developed over time were gross motor skills because of the large amounts of musculature used to produce these movements. I was able to develop my swing and throw over time. I never classified what type of motor skill I was using and and now I can using different classifications specifically looking at one-dimensional. I was using large muscle groups, the movement was always discrete since there was a beginning and end to them, and it was open since the ball could travel in different areas of the strike zone or caught in different positions.